The World - News from April 9, 1985
A powerful earthquake jolted central Chile for three minutes during the dinner hour, causing widespread panic, brief power blackouts, the collapse of at least one house and a fatal heart attack. The tremor was apparently an aftershock from a 7.7 quake March 3 that killed 177 people and left nearly a million homeless. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the latest quake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and was centered 50 miles west of Santiago.
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